Seed-planter.



Patented Mar. 6, I900.

C. W. INGRAM.

SEED PLANTER.

(Application filed Jan. 11, 1900.)

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S EED PLANTE R (Ap'plicatio'zi filed Jan. 11, 190b.

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No. 644,920. P'atnted Mar. 6, 190m.

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SEED PLANTER.

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CHARLES \V. INGRAM, OF BRUCEVILLE, TEXAS.

SEED-PLANTER.

SPECIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 644,920, dated March 6, 1900. Application filed January 11, 1900. Serial No. 1,112. (No model.)

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

The invention relates to seed-planters. The object of the invention is to provide a planter attachment which may be connected with the ordinary wheel-cultivator and which may be used as a planter or as a replanterthat is to say, it may be used in originally planting a field and then when the field is being cultivated should there be any barren places the planter attachment may be brought into action during the cultivation of the ground and replant the barren places.

To this end the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating my invention attached to a wheel-cultivator. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective View of the seedbox-supporting frame. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the seedbox.

In the drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

1 denotes a wheel-cultivator, which may be of any well-known or approved construction, and 2 its axle.

3 denotes a supporting-bar secured to the cultivator-beams by clips 5.

i 6 denotes the seedbox-supporting frame, which consists of the longitudinal strips 7, the forward ends of which are hinged to the lower side of the cross-bar 3; These strips are connected together by cross-pieces 8 and are provided with bearings 9 for the axle 10 of a traction-wheel 11.

12 denotes a slide-valve located within the bottom of the seedbox and by means of which the discharge of seed may be regulated. I

13 denotes a seed-discharge throat consisting of two curved strips pivoted to the bottom off-the seed-hopper at the side of the opening therein and held toward each other by spring-arms 14:.

15 denotes a rotary seed-wheel having fingers 16, which in passing throughthe slot in the bottom of the hopper force the seed through said slot and out from between the throat-pieces and allow the seed to fall to the ground.

The axle 10 of the traction-wheel is pro vided with a sprocket wheel 17, which is geared to the sprocket-wheel 18, fixed to the axle of the seed-wheel.

19 denotes a seed-stirrer the shaft of which is journaled in the side of the seedbox and provided with a sprocket-wheel 20, which is connected by a sprocket-chain 21 to a sprocketwheel 22, secured. to the axle 10.

23 denotes a furrow-opener, and 24 24 denote seed=coverers.-

25 denotes two bowed springs, the lower ends of which are fixedly secu red to the crossbar 3 and the upper ends of which are bowed rearwardly' and provided with hinged hooks 25, which engage shackles 26, connected to the forward end of the seedboX-supporting frame immediately in advance of the seedbox.

When the device is used as an ordinary planter, the hooks of the bowed springs are disengaged from the shackles,thns permitting the seedbox, with its mechanism, to lower into engagement with the ground. As it is drawn along, the traction-wheel will operate the seeddischarging mechanism, and the seed will be thus planted. When the hooks are engaged with the shackles, the tension of the springs will elevate the traction-wheel from engagement with the ground, so that the machine may be driven along and used as a cultivator. Here and there barren places will appear during the cultivation of growingplants, and the operator by pressing his foot down upon the seedbox will lower the tractionwheel into engagement with the ground, thus replanting the barren places. hen his foot is removed from the seedboX, the springs will return it to its normal position, with its traction -wheel elevated above the ground. It

will thus be seen that the machine may be used, first, as aseed-planter; second, as a cultivator, and, third, as a replanter.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, operation, and advantages of my improved seed-planter will be readily is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination with a cultivator; of a seedboX-supporting frame having a hinged connection therewith, a seedbox, and discharge mechanism therefor, and springs connected to the seedbox and exerting their energy to elevate the same to raise its discharge mechanism from engagement with theground, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a cross-bar adapted to be secured to the beams of a cultivator; of a seedboX provided with dropping mechanism, a seedboX-supporting frame to which 30 the seedboX is connected, said supportingframe being hinged to the crossbar, and springs secured to the crossbar and having one set of ends reinovably engaged with the said supporting-frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit nesses.

CHARLES WV. INGRAM.

\Vitnesses:

Gno. T. Cox, J. H. SHELTON. 

